The System Research Engineer will be working as part of collaboration between CSIRO, UWA, Curtin University and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to develop a technical architecture of the Australian SKA Regional Centre working as a member of the Australian SKA Regional Centre Design Study Program team. This position is a joint appointment with Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to develop and deploy the necessary computer and storage infrastructure capable of tackling SKA-scale data and computational challenges. You will also be contributing to the development of solutions for the SKA precursor surveys working with the ASKAP and MWA science teams, and transferring and applying solutions to other areas of data intensive sciences at Pawsey. The position is based in Perth (CSIRO, Kensington) with some time required to be spent in UWA (Crawley).

Your duties will include:

Develop the system level requirements for the Australian SKA Regional Centre via liaising with MWA, ASKAP, SKA stakeholders.

Contribute to the system level solutions in AusSRC MWA and ASKAP projects.

Liaise with the vendors of hardware, software, cloud solutions.

Location: Kensington, WA

Salary: AU$98k - AU$106k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Specified term of 2 years

Reference: 66561

To be considered you will need:

A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software/Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering, with substantial work experience in a relevant field.

Substantial and extensive experience with high I/O, high data volume, computationally intensive parallel applications and systems.